Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 17, 2016

Talk about being afraid of your own shadow.. Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

This strip represents one of the few times – you can count them on one hand, I believe – that Calvin gets the better of Hobbes.

I never saw Calvin ever again as a Scout after this arc. I wonder was it the Noodle incident that got him kicked out..

And that’s why Hobbes never interacts with other tigers: he’s afraid of them.

Hobbes learns in a later strip that tigers are territorial and don’t share their territory with one another. “This explains why I don’t get more dates,” he says.

But where are the lions and bears?

Afraid of his own kin?

Love Hobbes’s tail in panels two, then three.

Hobbes’ situation vis-à-vis other tigers reminds me of Mr. Tawky Tawny, the character from the Captain Marvel comics.

you are a tiger

LOOK! A HUMAN!Yes. Our species is what most animals are scared of.xxx

Calvin, what a stinker you are.

The shadows….

He’s afraid it might be someone he knows.

Ok I just spit my coffee out LMAO!!!

He could have used another animal, but he chose tiger. I wonder how Hobbes reacts every time he looks at the mirror. Probably like Tigger.